On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Mark Brown < broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:02:49AM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > > 'Twas brillig, and Taylor Hutt at 27/09/11 21:56 did gyre and gimble: > > > Hello folks, > > <snip> > > > > Since we have decided not to use Pulse, prior to my time, it seemed > > > prudent to continue with that decision. > > > I'll be blunt. This is a mistake. Revisit it. Do your own evaluation. We > That's not bad advice, but it's not always prudent. In this case, I am part of a team working to make a shipping product, and there are time constraints which do not afford the time necessary to do that, _and_ to make forward progress to get the sound system working across a constantly increasing variety of hardware. The door has not categorically closed on Pulse for all time, but it has closed for the time being. We've got a lot of work to get Chromium and Chromium OS to a point where ship with the desired features, and I don't presently have the time to re-investigate Pulse across our set of hardware. > > > As far as I understand it, > > > Pulse also doesn't cope well with dynamic devices -- it's more suited > to > > > a desktop system than to a system which will have devices dynamically > > > inserted & removed. > > > This is a grave misunderstanding. PA copes *very* well with dynamic > > devices. It's one of the key parts of what we do. Policy modules allow > > things to happen automatically (for example when I have a voip stream > > and I enable my bluetooth headset, a policy module kicks in and knows > > that I want voip on bluetooth. This is all customisable, but at the end > > of the day, this is very much a key part of the platform. > > Can you explain how Pulse copes with devices that have not been seen before and for which no configuration has been written? Does Pulse work with HDMI audio and video? > > This is good news as it means you still have time to make the right > > decision. I strongly suggest you take some time to read up a bit more > > about PA and chat to us about it. > > Point me to the definitive documentation, please. thutt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20110928/792bb735/attachment.htm>
